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Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy Tree© 1984 Olive Ann Burns391 pages “I know now the difference between a writer and an author. A writer writes, and an author speaks.” Those words came from Leaving Cold Sassy, an unfinished sequel to this work … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Southern Literature
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe© 1987 Fannie Flagg416 pages “You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.” Evelyn Couch is too young to feel this old. Despairing and lonely, she … Continue reading
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop© 2020 Fannie Flagg304 pages One of my favorite movies growing up was Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe: why on Earth this movie became a favorite in my very sheltered household, I cannot … Continue reading
Where I Come From
Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South© 2020 Rick Bragg256 pages What a joy Rick Bragg is to read! A native son of Alabama, Rick Bragg is a journalist-turned-folklorist in the tradition of Kathryn Tucker Windham, who here … Continue reading
Why Rick Bragg Writes
Quoted from Where I Come From, by Rick Bragg: “I write about home so I can be certain someone will. It is not much more complicated than that.” “Home is not a thing of position, or standing. My home is … Continue reading
The Autobiogaphy of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman259 pages© 1982 Ernest Gaines A young girl carries water for both exhausted rebels and the jubilant army chasing them. An elderly lady who has seen sorrow after sorrow visited on herself and her loved … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Ernest Gaines, race, Southern Literature, women
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Robert Ruark, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing © 2018 Delia Owens 368 pages ‘There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.’” – Aldous Leopold, The Sand County Almanac They called her the Marsh Girl. Abandoned in a decaying … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Bunch Favorites, Nature, recommended to me, Southern Literature, thriller
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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying © 1993 Ernest Gaines 256 pages “And that’s all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we – each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I … Continue reading
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Tagged American Literature, American South, Ernest Gaines, Southern Literature
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Mockingbird Songs
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee© 2017 Wayne Flynt251 pages When I read Poor but Proud by Wayne Flynt some years ago, I never imagined I’d meet the author, let alone help him carry in boxes of books for … Continue reading